A hint of the original MacIver content is contained here but $35 for this is idiotic greed (or just idiocy).

01084. THE WEB OF GOVERNMENT BY R.M. MACIVER. A review of this study of the working of government in human society. The 1947 study is viewed as a treatise on fascism and communism as class-based societies. 5 pages, 8 footnotes, 1 bibliographic source.

The key point in all of this is that top-down hierarchical command & control entities are not now and never will be complex adaptative systems. To achieve complex adaptive resilience you need to have bottom-up and contant feedback loops with integrity. See Search: The Future of OSINT is M4IS2.